foamfollower: Regarding the quality of the reel footage currently on Choice TV, on their Facebook page today they say: "The loop reel is a bit fuzzy yes. That's playing out of TVNZ and they are doing their best to sort it. We take over tonight so things will improve."

So is Choice TV in bed with TVNZ?? Still think they should have had this all sorted before going to air....very strange

Possibly just hiring their facilities. That would make sense, rather than buying your own.

Not on the same MUX as TVNZ.

Plus why is it advertised as being on Freeview HD Channel 12 ? in the TV guide.

foamfollower: Regarding the quality of the reel footage currently on Choice TV, on their Facebook page today they say: "The loop reel is a bit fuzzy yes. That's playing out of TVNZ and they are doing their best to sort it. We take over tonight so things will improve."

So is Choice TV in bed with TVNZ?? Still think they should have had this all sorted before going to air....very strange

Possibly just hiring their facilities. That would make sense, rather than buying your own.

Not on the same MUX as TVNZ.

Plus why is it advertised as being on Freeview HD Channel 12 ? in the TV guide.

Choice was having its loop broadcast by TVNZ, prior to the 28th of this month.

old3eyes: I see reading on line today that they won't broadcast in HD because it costs too much for the HD programming. A bit backwards in this day and age I think..

But its avertised as being HD in the TV Guide.

In HD or on Freeview|HD?

I agree all the channels in Freeview|HD should be HD.. But that would require a lot more multiplexes.

Generally known online as OpenMedia, now working for Red Hat New Zealand as a Solution Architect for all things Linux, Virtual and of course Cloud. Still playing with MythTV and digital media on the side.

Zipdisk: Not if they move to DVB T2 as Sky has done with its Igloo channel

Freeview is not going to force everyone to buy new T2-capable boxes. There could potentially be new niche channels on a forthcoming T2 mux, but the existing channels will be on "T1" for the foreseeable future.

Zipdisk: In the UK when they went DVB-T2 it all got moved to VHF III for far better coverage, one thing that NZ should do.

I've just been looking around the Digital UK site and it appears that they're using ~450-550 MHz. This isn't too far off the ~550-600 MHz that we're moving to.